The billionaire said he would abide by the result of the survey he posted Sunday evening.
Musk also shot down suggestions he already had a CEO in mind to replace him, lamenting in reply to one user, “No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.”
At the end of the voting period, in which over 17 million users had their say, 57.5 percent voted for Musk to step down, with 42.5 percent voting no. It is unclear if Musk will formally follow through on his pledge to step down as Twitter CEO. The poll came at the end of another chaotic week on Twitter, in keeping with the tumultuous period of ownership under Musk since his $44 billion takeover just over seven weeks ago. Last week, Musk stepped up his capricious, ad hoc and highly personal approach to content moderation,
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